I agree that Tman is NOT a spartan fan, he is welcome to his opinion but most people in the country would not trade ANY coach for Izzo.

Look at teams which were in the national title game and could not get back to the dance the next year (both FL and OSU in
danger of that this year).

Mostly look at the integrity and class Izzo has. He represents the university well in so many arenas as do the large majority of his players. Look at the Detroit Free Press site, best photos of Izzo parts one and two. One thing that
struck me was the body language of his interaction with his
players over multiple years. Players who hate a coach yelling at them or don’t respect, admire, trust their coach don’t hug him, don’t bend down to listen to him, don’t maintain a small interpersonal space. If his players truly didn’t like and trust him, they would be backing off in the photos and in game sideline interactions.

Players know when they come to MSU that they will
have the opportunity to learn, grow, and get better.
No one else has announcers repeat (over and over) that every four year player for Izzo has played in a final four.

We do want to win the B10 season but no one wanted it more than Izzo and the team.

Go green, go white!

What Spartan fan calls their own team the ‘toons? I call shenanigans.

If MSU is a “mediocre program”, what does that make the rest of the Big Ten? The only team that has been consistently more successful in-conference in recent years has never done anything in the tourney.

What a total collapse in the last 10 minutes of the game. Where was the coaching? It seems that Izzo goes to sleep in these games. I did not see any set plays or defense strategy to change the momentum of the Buckeyes onslaught. The ‘toons merely rolled over and let the wave wash them under.

The way they are playing, it will be one and done in both the Big Ten and the NCAAs. I thought Izzo was building an elite progam to compete with the Dukes and Kansas’ of the world. Instead, we see UNC, Duke, Kansas, UCLA performing as they have for the last twenty years and MSU still an “also ran”. With the exception of the starting Flint Five high schoolers, Izzo has done nothing (i.e. no Big Ten Championships since 1999 and 2000) with the talent he has recruited in eight years. Since 1999 and 2000, IOWA, Illinois, OSU and it now appears Wisconsin, have won 2 Big Ten Championships…..So what make MSU more special????

Tom…..suggestion here…..how about recuriting another great High School state championship team to play at State……maybe then you can return to the glory days…otherwise, you have condemned MSU to ge a medicore program…..

Same thing happened at Illinois, except they were at least calling it both ways (both teams were in the double-bonus relatively early in the second half after just 8 fouls combined in the first). Big Ten refs are aware that the foul rules don’t change at halftime, right?